Dishearten'd Quotes

#1. Be not dishearten'd
Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;
Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Walt Whitman

#2. Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

Armond White

#3. Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

Rumi

#5. He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Horace

#6. Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

John Updike

#7. No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. I had made the unwise decision to have my old clothes bagged and wear my fancy new finds home, so that I could debut my new look to the world at large. The reaction had been mixed at best, but often Tyne and wear was unable to keep up with my style savvy, so I didn't let it dishearten me.

Matthew Crow

#11. The Yoruba say 'o d'oju ala' when someone dies. I will see you in dreams.

Tade Thompson

#12. I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.

John Ortberg

#13. Love Fiction for Fiction Lovers

Selene Grace Silver

#14. But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!

Timur Vermes

#15. What is really desired, under the name of riches, is, essentially, power over men; in its simplest sense, the power of obtaining for own own advantage the labour of servant, tradesman, and artist; in wider sense, authority of directing large masses of the nation to various ends.

John Ruskin

#16. I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.
I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.
I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.
I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood.

Deanna Raybourn

#18. Over the years, I've discovered that as the years go by, sometimes we are energized and enlighten and sometimes we are demoralized and disheartened to realize that in some situations our beginning is our end and in others our end is our beginning.

Martin Guevara Urbina